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it taught the first clause as well with the same wording: The first woman precedes the second, without elaborating that the property would not be expropriated from the second if she were to seize it in payment of her marriage contract.
§ The Mishnah taught: If he married the first woman, etc. The Talmud notes: Conclude 3 conclusions from this statement: Conclude from it that if one of the man’s wives died in his lifetime and the other one died following his death, then the sons of the first wife are entitled to collect the marria
The Talmud asks: From where is it known that this is correct? From the fact that it teaches: The second wife and her heirs precede the heirs of the first wife, it can be inferred that they precede the heirs of the first, but if there are enough funds in the estate for all the claims against it, the
The second point one can conclude from it is that one marriage contract becomes surplus for the other. The rabbis ruled that each son may claim his mother’s marriage settlement only when the value of the estate exceeds the sum total of the marriage contracts by at least one dinar, so that the bibli
The Talmud asks: From where is it known that this is correct? The Talmud answers: From the fact that it does not teach in the Mishnah: If there is a surplus of a dinar in addition to the value of all the marriage contracts.